Budget 2015

Vote Education

The Budget 2015 investment of $442.9 million of operating funding and $243.8 million of capital funding will take total spending on primary, secondary and early childhood education in the coming year to $10.8 billion.

Vote Tertiary Education

The Government's total direct spend on tertiary education is approximately $4.250 billion per year (this does not include additional expenditure from other portfolios and Votes including contestable research funding from Vote Science and Innovation).

Budget 2015 will allocate $112.3 million of operating funding and $1.0million of capital funding for new initiatives in tertiary education over the next 4 years.